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Commercial crabbers file fourth amended complaint in US antitrust case

( December 11, 2025, 01:16 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Plaintiff Brand Little and a putative class of approximately 1,400 independent commercial crabbers filed a fourth amended class-action complaint alleging a pricing cartel. The plaintiffs allege that in the mid-2000s, the prices paid by defendants like Pacific Seafood and other buyers to Pacific Northwest Area crabbers for their crab — what is referred to in the fishing industry as the "ex vessel price" — started to climb. The defendants — who the plaintiffs describe as middlemen between crabbers and consumers — "decided to form a cartel of Pacific NW Area Dungeness crab buyers that had the purpose and effect of driving down the ex vessel price of Dungeness crab in the Pacific NW Area, so that the Defendants could earn higher profits," the complaint alleges.See attached document....

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